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Prospects of Space Astrometry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
Abstract
The advantages of making astrometric observations from space are reviewed, and a project for measuring angular separations between stars along great circle arcs of the order of 90°, by means of a telescope mounted on a TD 1 satellite is described. Positions with accuracy of the order of ±0″.01, parallaxes to ±0″.007 and proper motions to ±0″.005 yr-1 for some 40000 stars brighter than 9m.5 would be obtainable in a two year programme.
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- Session G: Astrometric Techniques
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 61: New Problems in Astrometry , 1974 , pp. 277 - 282
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- Copyright © Reidel 1974
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